“Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”

“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”

“Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come.”

“Long ago I discovered that there was more to life than cricket, and more to cricket than runs and wickets.”

“A life cut tragically short, but with more colour perhaps than one may find in her work.”

“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.”

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”

“Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. No conversion after the first half hour.”

“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”